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Social Security Commissioner Michael J. Astrue proposed yesterday that the Social Security would be publishing a proposed regulation, which is about the Quick Disability Determination (QDD). In the proposal, is the extension of the QDD process to the disability determination services of all of the States in the country.
The Social Security's Board of Trustees, which is a bipartisan panel with six members overseeing the financial transactions being carried out by the Social Security Trust Funds Administration, released their Trustees Report for the year 2007 last Monday. This reinforced the predictions that the Social Security can no long pay in full the promised benefits to its future generations largely due to the changing demographics of the country.
The United States Census Bureau reported on August 6, 2007 that during the year 2002, around 18 percent of the American people claim of having a disability. On the other hand, about 12 percent have severe or serious disability. Based on this data, more than half with ages 21 to 64 years old had held down a job. Meanwhile, four out of 10 of those who are 15 to 64 years old have utilized a computer in their homes. Furthermore, a quarter of those with ages 25 to 64 years old had earned a degree in college.
